R.I.P. Dino De Laurentiis
….didn’t know he was still alive, but there it is: started out in film aged 20
RIP
Requiescat In Pace mate 
(in Italian)
When I think of Dino de Laurentiis, I think of Blue Velvet.
When I think of Dino de Laurentiis, I think of “Mandingo”
★ Rest In Peace ★
…When you are born and when you die… Who knows? I don’t know for what this pebble is useful but it must be useful. For if it’s useless, everything is useless. So are the stars
That’s a pity…A Difficult Life, Nights of Cambiria, Il Mafioso, Diabolik!!! AND MORE (Comencini too productions)
I’m a fan of his Italian period but just for Evil Dead II, I’ll (partially) bow to his U.S. figure as well ;)
Dino De Laurentiis…now THAT was a ubiquitous name in cinema…and always will be. Could he have the longest credit list of any producer? He was working almost until the end of what was a very long and full life—a very fortunate man, indeed.
I thought he died years ago?
anyway, R.I.P. what a career!
;(
A very sad day; a man who cultivated beauty in cinema and life
he was a legend
Moe me ka maluhia, Kane de Laurentiis.
:(
I have a great deal of respect for Dino. A producer of the old guard that actually had creativity in their pysche aswell.
Probably the only producer I knew by name when I was six. A giant.
I only just bought Hannibal like 2 weeks ago and was watching supplementals with interviews of him. I saw the very same making stuff years and years ago but it was rented. Might’ve even been the first exposure I had of him at length actually in interviews. So Dino has even been a bit on my mind with his films and I’ve been watching Fellini too.
I’m actually quite sad now :(
Rest in Peace
I really like several of the films he produced, especially, La Strada..He will be missed. R.I.P.
ABSOLUTELY ONE OF A KIND! He’ll be missed!
R.I.P.
A LEGEND WHOSE FILMS LIVE ON IN THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF THOSE WHO ENJOYED HIS WORK,Rest in Peace, sir.
I just watched La Strada for the first time last night.
RIP sir.
Add me to the I didn’t know he was still alive group.
R.I.P.
The only films I can think of the top of my head that he produced were Hannibal and La Strada and someone mentioned that he produced Diabolique. He had a prolific career and he will be dearly missed. R.I.P.
I knew he was still alive, I just didn’t know he was so elderly.
Maybe it’s trivial for me to say, but I found myself really annoyed this morning when the idiot radio announcer couldn’t even pronounce his name (it took her three times and she still goofed it).
I wouldn’t have minded so much if she said it only once and said “Dee-Loh-Ren-Tis” instead of “Dee-Loh-Ren-Tees” or something like that—it would’ve been incorrect, but a common enough mistake— but she stumbled over the first syllable of his FIRST name “Dino” (who the fuck can’t pronounce “Dino”—didn’t she ever watch “The Flintstones”?)—and I know it sounds like no big deal, but it sounded REALLY awful, especially when announcing someone’s death (sounded far worse than I’ve explained). She didn’t apologise, either. And you could tell from her tone of voice she had no idea about the guy whose passing she was announcing.
Maybe it’s just me, but when you work for a radio station in a major city, you’re beholden to have a good general knowledge of show business giants—or, at least, read the copy before going to air and do some freakin’ research on the guy’s name (and career—and in the day and age of the Internet, it’d only take a minute). I don’t recall anyone goofing on Gianna Versace’s name (which is actually harder to get right). Dino deserves a better eulogy than that.
“and someone mentioned that he produced Diabolique.”
Not the Clouzot film, Diabolik by Mario Bava.
My very favorite:
The most underrated:
Grey Daisies
Dino De Laurentiis, producer of some of Italy’s best-known films including works by Federico Fellini and Roberto Rossellini, has died in Los Angeles aged 91, Italian media reported on Thursday.
De Laurentiis, who was born on August 8, 1919 in Torre Annunziata near Naples, also produced several well-known films in the United States including Three Days of the Condor with Robert Redford after he moved there in the 1970s.
He started out in film aged 20 and became one of the leading producers of Italy’s post-war cinema boom and the famous neo-realist genre.
One of the films he produced was Riso Amaro (Bitter Rice) by Giuseppe De Santis, a 1949 classic seen as one of the finest examples of neo-realism. (AFP)